Word: officialdom
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...future Red Books. Patently some supervisory body other than the Council is indicated to unify successive Freshman efforts. The most logical source of such a directive element would be the trained staff from the previous year. Unfortunately, most ex-Red Book editors generally require the College years of post-officialdom to recover from neurosis. But if the outgoing men could elect one of their number as Red Book overseer for the following year, some practical instructions from above could be added to the current paternal and distant solicitude...
...Only the wealthy, the lucky, or foreign officialdom have a chance to find a place to sleep in Nanking. By a stroke of luck and persistence in following up a Shanghai newspaper ad, we discovered the little house which is our domicile and TIME-LIFE'S Nanking office. I cannot even begin to convey the amount of personal effort and frustration we put into the housing quest. As an old China hand puts it: "If you hear of a house in Nanking, you don't ask to see it; you take it on the spot sight unseen...
Curran and Bridges were cochairmen. United, they won substantial wage gains. Big Joe was happy-but he was also uneasy. The reason for his uneasiness was that the top layer of C.M.U.'s officialdom was dominated by Communist party-liners, and in the midst of trade-union victory they were playing their own game, as slow-thinking Joe Curran slowly found...
Amatenrs, long encouraged by College Observatory officialdom, also found themselves in great demand in war activities, especially in the fabrication work on optical parts. Also, every key man in Barker's Observatory Optical Project was originally an amateur telescope maker...
...enforcing the Faculty Policy of compulsory war service credits. Dean Hanford and his assistants have bent backwards enough to recognize the advisability of granting requests to drop credits for basic or boot training; but on top of that minor concession they have started to apply the pressure of officialdom to those men who have not yet submitted their form 100's or equivalent Navy chits on service "education...